It’s not in the headlines like starvation in Gaza, but in focusing on the billions facing food insecurity or worse, our guest today points out that the world is enacting policies to reduce food production on agricultural lands diverting way too much to make biofuels. And he says while the environmental movement is well-intentioned, it is exacerbating the mounting crisis. Meanwhile Trump’s playing his weird games with tariffs will only make it worse. On this show, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Richard J. Sexton talks about his new book FOOD FIGHT: Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending Struggle to Feed a Hungry World. As with the climate crisis, which the world has known about for over 50 years but swept it under the rug, we have to ask if it might be any different this time? A solution is possible. Give a listen.
